joquarky

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by joquarky 6mo ago
Yep, anyone familiar with the Red Queen's race will recognize the importance of staying on top of AI advancements. But that position is orthogonal to whether they like having to participate in the race to begin with.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
> with a gift for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time It's not a gift, it's ignorance. Altman and his peers live in a bubble. They don't interact with former translators, copywriters, or web developers. They don'
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by joquarky 6mo ago
> AI is massively marketed by AI people as a tool to replace your job Keep in mind who pays the AI companies. It's not you, it's the C-levels. The marketing is aimed at them.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
> Drug development, cancer research and early detection, CT and MRI analysis, just to name a few. What good are these to someone who will never afford them? A lot of this talk reminds me of Elysium (2013).
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Times have changed and authoritarian think tanks have nearly perfected the mitigation of peaceful protests.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
> There even exists a 3.5% rule[1] in political science whereby authoritarian governments will topple if 3.5% of the population engages in nonviolent protest. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"[0]
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Also, if nobody has money to spend, who are these businesses selling to?
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by joquarky 6mo ago
How do you enforce this "should" globally?
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Substantially increase the capital gains tax and cap inheritance to only enough wealth for a single generation to get by without performing any real work. This might also come with the benefit of reducing the number of nepo-imbeciles runni
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by joquarky 6mo ago
It's false hope. Any UBI system will become as corrupted as our present tax system.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Why not just cut out the company entirely and go after something much easier to audit: capital gains taxes. This is money obtained for doing nothing (i.e., like UBI but for the wealthy). It should be taxed heavily and in inverse proportion
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by joquarky 6mo ago
It almost seems like you may have already read this short story, but just in case you haven't: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 We are spiraling toward the first half of this story. The second half is so idealistic at
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Did they not make backups? Perhaps we should force companies to return each and every byte of stolen data to their owners.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
What un-corrupted person or system is going to perform this assessment?
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Also, UBI will inevitably become just as convoluted and corrupted as our current tax laws.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Whoever provided the authorization credentials to the agent is on the hook.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Several decades of education cuts along with a second or third generation of nepotism/cronyism will get you some significant systemic problems.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
This is the "how can she slap?" style of reasoning.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Have you seen Demolition Man (1993)?
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by joquarky 6mo ago
I kind of wonder if people with ADHD tend to fall into the latter group, as we are used to setting guardrails to keep us aligned to a goal.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
What will you do when they stop burning cash and the $200 plan becomes $2000?
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Protests have already been mitigated by tactics researched and documented among the most authoritarian think tanks. Believe it or not, wealthy people plan ahead to protect their hoard and they have had several decades since Gandhi to figure
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by joquarky 6mo ago
I'm trying to determine the causal basis for this and given the ubiquity of evidence, I can only conclude that it must be sea lioning.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
> the general population’s standard of living doesn't go backwards too far too fast. Too late for that hypothetical.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
I think a good compromise there is to get rid of shorting. And tax capital gains at a rate inversely proportional to how long the shares were held. E.g., 90% if held less than a second, 10% if held over 10 years.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
You might belong to the group that is benefitting from the status quo.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Ironic that you waste our time with this.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Whatever helps you sleep at night...
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by joquarky 6mo ago
This smells like psychological projection.
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by joquarky 6mo ago
Quitting an ethanol addiction cold turkey can often be deadly. There aren't very many other drugs that can do that.

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